UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. But in this article I want to talk about a pattern that I see in many companies that are actually doing really well, growing aggressively, yet they will sometimes, over time and unintentionally, replace their good behaviors with bad ones.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. We were so rigorous about following the rules that we completely missed the spirit of agile software development.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Blindly adopting Agile is not a guarantee that a team will be agile , as these additional Agile rules are not essential to being agile. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. I have been in countless conversations where people argue incessantly about the definition of agile, PO vs PM, how the customers in their industry just don’t get it, and what actually constitutes good software engineering practices.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges. However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Engineers will begin the Coding process after some initial discussions with the product team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. Scrum is a framework that thrives upon Self-managing teams. Questions that help the developers discover and navigate conflicts between their individual values and Scrum values.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Typically, if your bounce rate is above 60%, then your product definitely has some issues. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. However, having a high bounce rate doesn’t always necessarily mean that your product is not solving an important problem.

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Usersnap

JULY 3, 2023

If you’re new to the bug tracking system, issue management or web development in general, you might wonder what a bug report is. For example, I’ve shown you 6 easy bug reporting tricks , answered the 4 W’s of bug reporting and gave you some insights on bad bug reports. But we need a bug report definition or meaning!

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. To improve his productivity, Chris decided to take over the software design to a digital agency.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

By definition, reactive data validation takes place after the fact and uses anomaly detection to identify any issues your data may have, and to help ease the symptoms of bad data. While these methods are better than nothing, they don’t solve the core problems causing the bad data in the first place.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. Localization testing is usually not the first thing that development companies consider. Localization testing is one of the types of QA that takes place during product development.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

As face-to-face consultations were no longer an option for many healthcare providers, Joel and his team dropped everything and asked themselves: what could they build to help their customers (and their customers’ patients) adapt to the new normal? It was exciting, and the worst-case scenario wasn’t so bad. Joel: Sure.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a great way of organising software development teams but it doesn’t answer the sorts of questions that CFO types love to ask like “how much will it cost and when will I get it?” A layered backlog – which includes granular stories ready for the developers to work on. The Best of Both Worlds.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. More on that later.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. There also has to be a definitive target market and need for the solution. You need to hire a team, obtain office space, and start creating a buzz about your company.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a trader of spices in 500BC, you most definitely had to consider customer expectations, profit margins, and the emergence of new techniques for preserving your product. So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2018

RACI matrix is dead because it doesn’t help in modern product development and doesn’t reflect the realities of how software is built nowadays. If you rely on a RACI matrix, this probably indicates some serious issues within organisation of your software product team. Well, the team does the work.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lists of trends that survey the past should be easier by definition, right? This trend has supported the emergence of the Data Product Manager as a role on the product team dedicated to the process of collecting, organizing, storing, and sharing data within an organization. They focus on the results that the team is looking for.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Amplitude

MAY 25, 2017

Product Analytics is one of the most high leverage roles in a company that’s investing in software development. However, most companies simply don’t have enough data literacy on their team to interpret the data available to them. Is that a good definition? Expertise in setting up high leverage tools for their team.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Definition of user onboarding. Plot summary.

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Usersnap

APRIL 25, 2019

Countless times projects progress so slowly only due to poor ticket management. If you are using Usersnap, your team, clients or customers definitely are submitting more bug reports due to the convenience of capturing screens and annotating in-product. “A This could then be used as a development roadmap. List: Started.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

You also have to gain the confidence of your product team, since they are relying heavily on you for the success of the overall product. By definition, you aren’t an expert initially. Years ago when I was working with the Money Markets and Liquidity team at Goldman Sachs, I knew very little about the products and environment.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

All these questions boil down to the same thing: “ How long will that chunk of software development take? ”. As product managers it often isn’t our responsibility to provide an answer, but we’re frequently asked the question by our superiors or dependent teams nonetheless. Bad weather. Wrong turns. Infrastructure changes.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2019

There are a bunch of ways teams deal with this point in time. But if that second person is the developer of the feature, do you think that she is going to do her best work? Yeah, the spreadsheet has worked for a long time and the database will be development work and might even be buggy. Don’t believe me? Let’s talk more.”

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). In fact they decided to broaden the scope of the role by bringing it closer to the team and customers?—?this

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Folding Burritos

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

How can this kind of stress be any good for our teams in the long run? The good and bad parts are, however, separated by a very fine line. Deadlines can easily become impossibly heavy burdens that demoralize otherwise great teams. Also, in order to produce this output, you have a team/budget. Can we do this?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2018

A Lack of Information The NPS gives you a number that effectively tells you if your net score is positive (good) or negative (bad). Now imagine a poor Product Manager who is tasked with parsing these answers for useful information. Let your product teams design the questions to get the information they need.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

The Basics Put simply, a roadmap is a living document that shows how you plan to develop your product. So it seems the vast majority of SaaS companies only allow team members to view the roadmap, even if most employees don’t actually use it. Enabling your internal teams to access and use the roadmap should be the minimum.

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